Re: my mini-pci cards regularly fail

We use the Alix boards heavily with madwifi, and I don't think we've ever 
found a madwifi problem that was specific to the Alix boards. That said, you 
want to be sure you're using a recent bios to avoid several timing isues 
that showed up on the early Alix releases.

Tom S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pavel Roskin" <[email protected]>
To: "Robin Wood" <[email protected]>
Cc: "madwifi-users Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] my mini-pci cards regularly fail


> Quoting Robin Wood <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi
>> I have two mini pci cards running in an Alix board, both will work
>> fine either together or singularly for a short while but then fail
>> with the following error
>>
>> ieee80211_unref_node: NULL ieee80211_node *
>
> This was a bug in the trunk, but it should be fixed now.
>
>> I've tried a few different versions of madwifi including the svn
>> release of 0.9.4, the latest svn release and the one that comes with
>> from the debian package manager, all fail with either this or other
>> problems that just cause the machine to lock up (the error above is
>> from the debian package version).
>
> Version 0.9.4 and the 0.9.4 branch don't have node refcounting at all,
> so I doubt that you are getting the above message with either of them.
>
> It must be some other error, but you didn't give any clues as to what
> it may be.
>
> You would normally get better replies if you describe just one problem
> with one version, but do it well.  That means the exact revision, the
> kernel version, kernel messages from the driver, what you are doing in
> userspace and whatever would be helpful for others to reproduce the
> problem.
>
>> I've tried to use the ath5k drivers but neither card is supported yet.
>
> As far as I know, all hardware supported by MadWifi is supported by
> either ath5k or ath9k.  Perhaps you should try ath9k.
>
>> So, two questions, can anyone recommend a good (preferably cheap) mini
>> pci card that is supported by ath5k and is known to be stable when
>> used with kismet and has anyone else had problems getting the madwifi
>> drivers working on the Alix board?
>
> I'm not sure if you are hitting some bug or you have a hardware
> problem, so giving any recommendations would be pointless.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
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